As the blogging platform keeps getting stronger

Jun 19, 2010 11:01 GMT  ·  By

WordPress is one of the world’s most popular blogging platforms and, even as blogs are a bit old-fashioned these days, there are still a lot of people actively using the medium. At least that’s what the latest stats from WordPress.com would indicate. The blog-hosting platform has announced that, this month, the 200,000,000th blog post was published on WordPress.com.

“This month we passed an impressive milestone: 200,000,000 posts have been published on WordPress.com. Does this number surprise us? Not at all. Because we’ve long known that you — our users — have an infinite amount of things to share with the world,” Joy Victory, the ‘Editorial Czar at Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WordPress.com, announced.

“From posts about your struggles with life and death, your favorite hobbies or your simple yet touching thoughts of the day, you are who we have to thank for helping us become the success we are today. Onward and upward,” she added.

It’s an interesting milestone, but it’s a bit hard to put into perspective. Still, considering that writing a blog post is, or at least should be, harder and more time consuming than just tweeting 140 characters or uploading a photo to Flickr and the likes, it’s an impressive number.

All these posts come from the more than 11.4 million blogs WordPress.com hosts. And all these bloggers are fairly active, 350,000 new posts are published every day. They drive a lot of engagement and there are 400,000 comments daily. Automattic says about 260 million people visit at least one WordPress.com blog each month.

And all of this is not counting all the people that host their own blog using WordPress software. There are 13.8 million WordPress installations in the world that the company says are active. Those blogs surely produce at least the same amount of content as WordPress.com blogs, so the numbers should be even bigger than the ones reported.